President to tell world on Lanka's success story

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will brief the United Nations on Sri Lanka’s success story in eliminating terrorism and the country’s ambitious plans to win its second war - the economic war to make Sri Lanka the pride of Asia, an External Affairs Ministry spokesman told the Sunday Observer yesterday.

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Overwhelming majority in passing 18th Amendment :

Opposition MPs acted in national interest

The Government has reiterated that the overwhelming majority in passing the 18th Amendment in Parliament clearly demonstrates even most of the Opposition Parliamentarians understood the need for such an Amendment in the national interest.

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Flashback 2006:

President's speech at UN

Having been a human rights campaigner at the grass roots level throughout my political life, it was natural that my new government should be committed to carrying the message of democracy to all corners of our multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious country.

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